Kilbrandon and Kilchattan
Principal Sources
RMS I App 2 Index A No 363, Index B No 10
RMS II (2264) 1390
RMS V (691) 1584
RMS VI (891) 1599, (1436) 1564
RMS VII (587) 1607, (1697) 1614
APS VII pp 339-40 c. 1647
RRS V (27) 1313
Robertson’s Index p 15 No 10
AS I (75, 87) 1619, (147, 157, 167-8) 1621, (185) 1622, (251, 271) 1643, (276-7) 1644, (368) 1658, (389) 1659, (567, 570) 1674
AS II (1-2) 1617, (10, 13) 1618, (50) 1619, (89-90) 1620, (118) 1621, (147) 1622, (167) 1623, (233) 1627, (237) 1628, (273-4) 1629, (316, 318, 321-2, 324) 1630, (362) 1631, (434) 1632, (522) 1634, (569) 1636, (826) 1654, (891) 1655, (1039) 1662, (1122, 1131, 1171, 1176) 1664, (1205, 1271) 1665, (1233) 1665, (1357) 1667, (1400) 1668, (1469) 1669
HP IV pp 221-4 1669
GD 112/2/9/1/1 1596-7
GD 112/2/9/27 1685
GD 112/2/11 1736
GD 112/2/21a/1/1 1657
GD 112/2/40/1/5 1510
GD 112/2/93/1 1728
GD 112/2/95 1655
GD 112/2/107 1470
GD 112/2/110/1 1564(can’t find source)
GD 112/2/116/1 1540-1
GD 112/2/116/6 1570
GD 112/2/116/11 1571
GD 112/2/129 1652
GD 112/2/142 1665
GD 112/3/5 1470
GD 437/11 1578-9
Misc(SHS) IV p 269 No’s 34-5 1623
Munro, ALI pp 14-16
Inventory of Lamont Papers p94 No 290 1575
Genealogist 31 p 156
OPS II, I, p 103
Argyll Retours (17) 1615, (38) 1630, (66) 1662, (101) 1503,
Miscellany of the Spalding Club, Vol 5, Aberdeen, 1852
W Fraser, The Stirlings of Keir and their papers, Edinburgh, 1858
RHP 975/1 Survey of Seil & Luing, G Langlands 1787
RHP 972/5 Robertson’s Report and Valuation 1796
RHP 720 A Langlands
RHP 964/4
Skene’s source gives Seill as 60m, Loyng as 40m. It is possible that he has muddled the two; it is also possible that one of his totals includes Torsa (but not Shuna). Even so his values are higher than mine. The 1751 Argyll Valuation Roll gives 106m + Shuna. Smith’s table gives 112m for Kilbrandon and Kilchattan. I find 123½m.
The mainland part of Kilbrandon is worth 38m and since both the parishes to the north (Kilninver and then Kilmore & Kilbride) have an exchange rate of 1d : 2m it seems likely that this also obtained here. (This ratio is supported by the evidence from Kilchoan and ‘Awchtyheych’). In this case the mainland part of Kilbrandon was likely to be notionally 40m or 20d or 1 ounceland.
The remaining 85½m belonged to the islands of Luing (42m), Seil (32m), Torsa (4m) and Shuna (7½m). The only direct evidence we have for the conversion rate here is that the 2d of Ardlarach was worth 8m. This suggests that in the islands such as Seil and Luing 1d was worth 4m – a suggestion reinforced by the number of discrete 4m units to be found there. It is important to distinguish the conversion rate in the islands from that which obtained on the mainland. That they are distinct suggests that the islands were absorbed into the Scottish body fiscal at a different time. I think the mainland portion of Kilbrandon was once either a separate parish or joined with one of its mainland neighbours. I suspect it was wedded to the islands at a relatively late date. In total the islands were worth just over one ounceland.
Kilchattan (=Luing, Shuna, Torsa)
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